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characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, sweet and brisk with abundant flavour. Keeps about two months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured. Crisp, crunchy and dry. Sweet-tart with an intense, rich flavour, but it needs to hang on the tree as long as possible.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp, tender and brisk with a sweet, nutty flavour. Keeps well for about two months in cold storage and then quickly becomes mealy.
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characteristics: Flesh is greenish white, tender, and firm. Nutty with fruit-drop flavour and intensely sweet sharp.
summary: A limb sport of the Tenroy Royal Gala discovered in 1993 at Pakowhai (New Zealand). Cherry red over the entire surface some striping, ripens 10 days earlier ...
summary: A mutation of Buckeye Gala. Brighter red cherry colour and heavier striping. Adapts well to hot climates.
characteristics: The flesh is pale green, fine?grained, crisp and juicy. Sweet and flavourful. Keeps for six months in cold storage.
characteristics: The flesh is pale green, coarse-grained, soft. Somewhat dry, low sugar content, very tart. Hints of strawberry.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender and juicy. Sweet and aromatic. It keeps well in cold storage for about two months.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender, crisp, juicy, slightly tart and flavourful when allowed to ripen completely.
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summary: Considered to be "indistinguishable" from Webb's Kitchen Russet by the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale. Please see Webb's Kitchen Russet .
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characteristics: The flesh is creamy-white with a good deal of red stain next to the skin. Crisp, firm and fine textured. Juicy and honey-sweet, sprightly with good flavour.
characteristics: The flesh is tender, mealy and bland flavour.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm and juicy. Brisk with a sweet and aromatic flavour. Keeps well in cold storage for two to three months.
summary: A limb mutation of Naga Fu 6 found in 1994 at Totara Grove Orchard in New Zealand. The fruit tend to be larger than the standard for Fuji and brighter colours. ...
summary: Sweet and juicy eating apple bred in the Czech Republic by crossing Topaz and Tuscan.
summary: An upper tree mutation of Tenroy Gala discovered in 1995 at Cleveland, Tennessee (U.S.A.). The fruit is large, round conic and it has five distinct knobs at the ...
origins: Red sport of Delicious. Lenswood South Australia during the 1950s.
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summary: This is the quintessential ingredient for French apple tarts. Aside from its wonderful flavour and sharpness, it holds its shape well when baked. It is also ...
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summary: Also used for cooking, rich, sweet and holds its shape.
characteristics: The flesh is white but stained red next to the skin. Juicy and sweetwith a delicate violet aroma. Keeps a month or two in cold storage.
summary: Grown in the American south during the mid- to late 1900s, but slowly faded away and was thought to have disappeared, but recovered in the late 1900s.
identification: More striped than the orginal Delicious cultivar. Spur bearer.
summary: A limb mutation of Jonathan. Alternating pattern of dark and bright red stripes on the skin. Found in early 2000 by Jeffrey Campbell or Peters Orchards in ...
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summary: This is a flavourful, russetted eating apple, especially after a month or two in storage. Also makes wonderful apple pies and crumbles. Holds shape when cooked.
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